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To: Gabz
The sad thing is many of them don't realize what it is they are doing...........folks like us and JaJ and Lockjaw, and the late Max McGarrity.......we seem like weirdos to them because we are not touting the mainstream media mantra about addiction and how smokers all want to quit, etc, etc.....

That's how all of this got started.  When this war on the smokers didn't work........they went after how OUR second hand smoke is killing everyone.  I guess they thought we were supposed to fall on our knees in front of them like Big Tobacco did in front of the AG's and hang our heads and say "Oh your so right.  We just have to quit this evil weed."  Well, we didn't!  And until they ban the damn stuff, I shall enjoy my life and my coffee and cigarettes.  Fork em.

Everyday more and more smokers are waking up to the fact that mantra of the anti-smokers is not the only information available, and the antis are started to get scared. Smokers are no longer being the sheeple they were, because they are starting to realize there is another side and they do have a voice.

Yes, there always is two sides to every story.  I prefer to believe the research that we have discovered, and not the Partnership for a Tobacco Free Everything.

Just the increase in the number of people asking to be added to the ping lists says volumes.........and in real life I've been noticing an increasing number of non-smokers, former smokers and even former anti-smokers saying enough is enough. It's a slow process, they've had a huge jump on us because of the huge deep pockets they can rely on, but the tide is turning............

I received a newsletter from RJR and it used to be 50,000 smokers.  Now, RJR state they have "70,000" people that have signed up for the newsletter. And I am sure not all of them smoke.  Well, not sure, but 70,000 that signed up for the truth.

178 posted on 04/05/2004 12:56:00 PM PDT by SheLion (Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
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To: SheLion
The gnatzis keep saying that smokers are in the minority,and they are right,but there are still 60,000,000 of us and that ought to count for something.




182 posted on 04/05/2004 1:01:22 PM PDT by Mears (The Killer Queen--caviar and cigarettes)
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To: SheLion
And until they ban the damn stuff, I shall enjoy my life and my coffee and cigarettes. Fork em.

If they ban it, I'll be smoking a cigar that day, just to give that law the finger.

A law like that is wrong, and unworthy of being followed by me.

237 posted on 04/05/2004 3:42:24 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("My governor don't got the answer")
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